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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  • Major poetic voice of Romantic period
  • Preface as revolutionary poetic statement
  • Early supporter of French Revolution

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Wordsworths Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
  • Spontaneous overflow of emotion recollected in
    tranquility
  • Poet as man talking to man
  • Language of common man
  • Poetry has a purpose
  • Common people represent natural man

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Wordsworths Myth of Nature
  • Growth of human mind through individuals
    relation to natural world
  • Verges of pantheistic beliefs at times
  • Later becomes quite conservative
  • Dorothys Journals and Coleridges collaboration
    instrumental in his myth of nature

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Dorothy and Dove Cottage
  • Dorothy Wordworth

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Dove Cottage, 1802
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The Pastoral
  • Originated with Greek poet Theocrituswrote poems
    representing life of shepherds
  • Deliberately conventional poem expressing an
    urban poets nostalgic image of the peace and
    simplicity of the life of shepherds and other
    rural folk in an idealized natural setting
  • Develop pastoral elegy

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Wordsworths Poetic Career
  • Best remembered for Lyrical Ballads (1798)
  • 1843 Appointed poet laureate
  • 1850 Prelude published posthumouslyepic story
    of growth of poets mind
  • Late poetry no longer seriously studied
  • Poetics based on remembrancepast of intense
    experiences

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Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey (1798) I
  • Wordsworth had visited in 1793now comes back in
    1798
  • Claims written spontaneously
  • Good example of dramatic lyricdramatic poems in
    which the focus of interest is primarily on the
    speakers elaborately ingenious arguments poet
    is often the speaker

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Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey (1798)
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Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey (1798) II
  • 236 Scene provides sublime sensationsbecomes
    living scene
  • After five years he is still connected with this
    spot

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Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey (1798) III
  • 236 Turns to this memory when world gets too
    busymoments of half-extinguished thought
  • Recalls youthful days and animal movements
  • 237 Now has more mature appreciation of nature
  • Scene still affects him

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Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey (1798) IV
  • 237 Turns to Dorothyhas wish for her
  • 238 Wish for Dorothy
  • Landscape and memory more dear because of her
    presence

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The Sonnet
  • Lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of
    fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an
    intricate rhyme scheme
  • Italian Sonnet/Petrarchan Sonnet
  • English Sonnet/Shakespearean Sonnet
  • Spenserian Sonnetvariation of Shakespearean

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Composed Upon Westminster Abbey (1807)
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Composed Upon Westminster Abbey (1807)
  • Italian sonnet
  • Commemorates trip to France
  • 296 City calm with day about to break
  • Mighty heart lying still
  • Great image citys latent potential
  • Romanticism not all about nature

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The World Is Too Much With Us (1807)
  • Italian sonnet
  • 297 Too much concerned with world
  • 298 Natural splendor now packagedmoves us not
  • Would rather be energetic Pagan
  • Were out of tune
  • Ends with great sea imageryphallic?
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